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Graded identities for hyperbolic surfaces with cusps and cone points.

At a 3/2-cusp of a given plane curve $γ(t)$, both of the Euclidean curvature $κ_g$ and the affine curvature $κ_A$ diverge. In this paper, we show that each of $\sqrt{|s_g|}κ_g$ and $(s_A)^2 κ_A$ (called the Euclidean and affine normalized curvature, respectively) at a 3/2-cusp is a smooth function of the variable $t$, …

We consider smooth 1-parameter families of plane curves tangent to a semicubic parabola, when the curvature radius of their curves at the tangency point vanishes at the cusp point. We find the $\A$-normal form of these families, their envelopes and local patterns near the cusp. We obtain a new codimension 2 singularity…

The paper shows that oval caustics have at least 4 cusps.

By a Morse function on a compact manifold with boundary we mean a real-valued function without critical points near the boundary such that its critical points as well as the critical points of its restriction to the boundary are all non-degenerate. For such Morse functions, Saeki and Yamamoto have previously defined a …

Constructs stable maps from 3-manifolds to surfaces without cusps.

Maximal cusps are not dense on Teichmüller space for infinite-type surfaces.

As was pointed out by Nikulin [8] and Vinberg [10], a right-angled polyhedron of finite volume in hyperbolic n-space $\mathbb{H}^n$ has at least one cusp for $n\geq 5$. We obtain non-trivial lower bounds on the number of cusps of such polyhedra. For example, right-angled polyhedra of finite volume must have at least th…

The paper shows caustics by reflection in projective Finsler metrics have at least four cusps.

We study the critical points of the renormalized volume for acylindrical geometrically finite hyperbolic 3-manifolds that include rank-1 cusps, and show that the renormalized volume is locally convex around these critical points. We give a modified definition of the renormalized volume that is additive under gluing, an…

The conjugate locus of a point $p$ in a surface $\mathcal{S}$ will have a certain number of cusps. As the point $p$ is moved in the surface the conjugate locus may spontaneously gain or lose cusps. In this paper we explain this `bifurcation' in terms of the vanishing of higher derivatives of the exponential map; we der…

The paper proves the conjecture about the number of cusps in a caustic formed by reflecting rays in a circle.

New tiling algorithm for hyperbolic 3-manifolds, characterizing cusp areas.

Study bounds on cusp volumes of alternating knots on surfaces.

Study Blaschke's asymptotic lines on surfaces in 3D space.

For $0<k<1$, a finite-type $k$-surface in $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space is a complete, immersed surface of finite area and of constant extrinsic curvature equal to $k$. In [32], we showed that such surfaces have finite genus and finitely many cusp-like ends. Each of these cusps is asymptotic to an immersed cylinder …

We show that the set of cusp shapes of hyperbolic tunnel number one manifolds is dense in the Teichmuller space of the torus. A similar result holds for tunnel number n manifolds. As a consequence, for fixed n, there are infinitely many hyperbolic tunnel number n manifolds with at most one exceptional Dehn filling. Thi…

The conjugate locus of a point on a surface is the envelope of geodesics emanating radially from that point. In this paper we show that the conjugate loci of generic points on convex surfaces satisfy a simple relationship between the rotation index and the number of cusps. As a consequence we prove the `vierspitzensatz…

Study on singularities of Lagrangian immersions with applications in Floer theory.

Study on random hyperbolic surfaces with many cusps, focusing on tight geodesics.

Study on geodesics and eigenvalues on random hyperbolic surfaces with cusps.

Classifies worst approximable rational numbers using hyperbolic geometry.

A generalized cusp $C$ is diffeomorphic to $[0,\infty)$ times a closed Euclidean manifold. Geometrically $C$ is the quotient of a properly convex domain by a lattice, $Γ$, in one of a family of affine groups $G(ψ)$, parameterized by a point $ψ$ in the (dual closed) Weyl chamber for $SL(n+1,\mathbb{R})$, and $Γ$ determi…

We consider Ricci flow on a closed surface with cone points. The main result is: given a (nonsmooth) cone metric g_0 over a closed surface there is a smooth Ricci flow g(t) defined for (0,T], with curvature unbounded above, such that g(t) tends to g_0 as t tends to 0. This result means that Ricci flow provides a way fo…

Proves existence and uniqueness of metrics with negative curvature and singularities on compact surfaces.

Groups with cusped spaces are quasi-isometric to symmetric spaces.

We consider an inverse problem associated with some 2-dimensional non-compact surfaces with conical singularities, cusps and regular ends. Our motivating example is a Riemann surface $\mathcal M = Γ\backslash{\bf H}^2$ associated with a Fuchsian group of the 1st kind $Γ$ containing parabolic elements. $\mathcal M$ is t…

We extend the canonical cell decomposition due to Epstein and Penner of a hyperbolic manifold with cusps to the strictly convex setting. It follows that a sufficiently small deformation of the holonomy of a finite volume strictly convex real projective manifold is the holonomy of some nearby projective structure with r…

Extends Paulin's result to relatively hyperbolic groups.

Let M be a geometrically finite pinched negatively curved Riemannian manifold with at least one cusp. We study the asymptotics of the number of geodesics in M starting from and returning to a given cusp, and of the number of horoballs at parabolic fixed points in the universal cover of M. In the appendix, due to K. Bel…

Paper extends tree bijection for hyperbolic surfaces without requiring cusps.

We prove that a 3--dimensional hyperbolic cusp with convex polyhedral boundary is uniquely determined by its Gauss image. Furthermore, any spherical metric on the torus with cone singularities of negative curvature and all closed contractible geodesics of length greater than $2π$ is the metric of the Gauss image of som…

This article is dedicated to prove Buser's conjecture about Bers' constants for spheres with cusps (or marked points) and for hyperelliptic surfaces. More specifically, our main theorem states that any hyperbolic sphere with $n$ cusps has a pants decomposition with all of its geodesics of length bounded by a constant r…

We study the behavior of the Quillen metric for the family of Riemann surfaces with cusps when the additional cusps are created by degeneration. More precisely, in our previous paper, we've seen that the renormalization of the Quillen metric associated with a family of Riemann surfaces with cusps extends continuously o…

New formulas for surface curvature when tangent vector points in asymptotic directions.

Infinite volume moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces are redefined with exponential forms.

4-manifolds show every flat 3-manifold as cusp sections.

Characterizes holonomies of convex projective cusps.

Study geodesics entering a fixed cusp neighborhood multiple times.

We find that cusp densities of hyperbolic knots in the 3-sphere are dense in [0,0.6826...] and those of links are dense in [0,0.853...]. We define a new invariant associated with cusp volume, the cusp crossing density, as the ratio between the cusp volume and the crossing number of a link, and show that cusp crossing d…

The paper classifies different types of cusps on plane curves.

The paper characterizes links in 3D from divides with cusps.

We describe the structure of the asymptotic lines near an inflection point of a Lagrangean surface, proving that in the generic situation it corresponds to two of the three possible cases when the discriminant curve has a cusp singularity. Besides being stable in general, inflection points are proved to exist on a comp…

This study extends a result on quasi-isometry of hyperbolic groups to relatively hyperbolic groups.

The paper explores cusp types in hyperbolic 4-manifolds and their commensurability classes.

We consider in this paper the $FRS$-deformations of a family of space curves with codimension $\leq 3$. Some geometric aspects of a space curve such as flattenings, vertices and twistings points has been studied.

The paper generalizes envelope constructions for chords in circles, revealing complex singularities.

New findings on cusped Borel Anosov representations and their properties.